Tipping bouncers / floor managers

Not a bouncer, the usually play the back/wall at most clubs I go to. Now waitress’s are way more in tune with the dancers. I’m friendly with them and they always try to hook me up. But I don’t always like what they are trying to hook me up with.

According to every stripper I know, which girl the bouncer sends over is heavily dependent on which girls tip him best. In a busy club, especially on weekends, many girls will be cultivating working relationships with the bouncers. Basically, you're tipping him to send you his business associate. He may do some pattern matching -- if you ask for a big-bootied brunette, he might not bring you his spinner blonde, but the big-bootied brunette who he DOES bring, will be the one who has the best business relationship with him (i.e., the biggest hustler), not the "best" girl. It's a sucker move to think the bouncer is your friend in the situation where it's a new club; he's a guy who (understandably) is looking to make some $ both from you and the girl. Ditto everyone else in the club.

Equation changes if you're a regular who spends some time building up connections ITC. I've gotten very good advice from bouncers & managers in that case.

Yeah - in strip-club bizarro-world one often doesn't know who's on your side - safe to assume most people in strip-clubs from staff to dancers to custies are looking-out for their best personal interest and not yours.

Being on good-terms w/ the staff can often help but as Subraman mentioned probably more-so if you are a regular vs some PL that shows up out of the blue.

You are probably better off doing your own research via talking-to/interviewing the girls and see if you can come to an agreement, and maybe taking them for some test-dances, vs relying on the advice of a stranger that may very-likely have his own personal agenda.

Tipping bouncer to recommend a girl to send over in a club I've never been to? Nope. I don't see the upside - I'll find for myself the girl I want instead of relying on recommendations from a bouncer I've never met. I've never had to tip a bouncer to get a table, but if I was dying for one and there weren't any available I suppose I would.

Tipping bouncers at a club where I'm a regular (and I know that's not OP's question). You bet - bouncers and door guys I'm friendly with - all the time, and the tipping has its perks (no license scan, waved in with no cover charge, looking the other way during VIP chair dances, no surveillance in closed rooms, and extended time in rooms). Win-win.

The DS got most of her ITC business from bouncers. They got a cut of 20-30 percent and she got a constant stream of customers too stupid timid or lazy to choose their own stripper. And she gave these guys pathetic air dances unless they tipped big. They had no leverage to get high mileage because they never even talked to her before they went back. All of these guys were ripped off. Bouncers at some clubs make a lot of money this way.

Never let a bouncer chose your stripper. No exceptions.

I don't think it a good idea to tip bouncers to send girls over. Likely he will just repeat what you have told him to the girl.

You should find them yourself, that makes more of an impression on the girl.

Also, some people tip bouncers to be allowed to go over the limits. That always leads to troubles, as the bounders are no longer doing their jobs. Better to avoid clubs where it is done that way.

SJG

This woman escaped from a forced child marriage. Clearly this is outside of anything in my own experience. But she also talks about how in not backing her up, her parents betrayed her. I feel that she has found something which is universal. She has found the betrayal, exploitation, and abuse which is at the core of the middle-class family. youtube.com

The only time I've tipped a non bartender/waitress/fancer: I went up to the desk where they sell the dances at cause there were a couple of employees there not just the one. Told them I was looking for pale (white, asian, latina), slim, preferably tallish dancer and that I saw one out earlier. One of the guys, turned out to be the top manager lol, went and got her. I tipped him 5 bucks, probably should have been more but whatever.

Aham posted: "Anyone have any success stories in tipping a bouncer to send your type girl over? Do you do it regularly?"

No to the first, which makes the second n.a. I pick out my own girls and don't need any help doing it.

On a more general note, I rarely tip a bouncer/manager for anything. However, there are exceptions to this to deal with local club custom or if someone does something special for me. A local club custom might be something like tipping a manager to turn a blind eye to p4p ITC. Something special might be something like a warning about a DUI checkpoint.

@rickdugan, I would tip for that

How about when you ask a bouncer/floor host to bring you a specific girl that works at the club, but you can't find her on the floor or don't even know if she is working that day? I think that could be worth a tip. Especially, like when once the bouncer even knew where the girl was at the club and was occupied with another PL. He actually grabbed her away from him and brought her over to me. She would later go on to become my ATF. So he definitely did me a solid. Now if the girl was someone you knew of but had no history with her and she proceeds to give a sucky dance or worse, even a ROBish one, then no tip for the bouncer.

Yes if I like a girl I talk to her. Paying a bouncer to send over a girl you pay to be there is a great idea

General consensus is, it's a waste of money. Im hearing it, loud and clear.

A month ago at my favorite club a new white dancer approached me and said (bouncer) sent me over. I'm on a first name basis with him but have never tipped him.

I did tip a bouncer once. I went out to the parking lot and found that I had a flat tire. My cell phone was dead so I couldn't call AAA. The outside bouncer called them for me and then came inside to get me when they showed up. That was worth a $5.

Rarely.